Clarence Darrow : American iconoclast / Andrew E. Kersten.

"Clarence Darrow is best remembered for his individual cases, whether defending the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb or John Scopes's right to teach evolution in the classroom. In the first full-length biography of Darrow in decades, the historian Andrew E. Kersten narrates the complete life of Ameri...

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Main Author: Kersten, Andrew Edmund, 1969-
Language:English
Published: New York : Hill and Wang, 2011.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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520 |a "A new biography of American legal giant Clarence Darrow"--Provided by publisher. 
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